
Lat Am Beats
A showcase of artists from Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba and Brazil who helped redefine the passion for music in South America.
LatAm Beats showcases the work of eight exciting artists - from Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba and Brasil - that helped to redefine the passion for music in the region.
Each one recorded a favourite song in a studio exclusively for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, and the resulting videos were shown as part of the highly acclaimed LatAm Beats multi-media series on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World News TV channel and on the sites ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Online, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Brasil.
The radio programme offers an opportunity to know more about these musicians and to listen to cherry-picked samples from their commercialy recorded output and also to the songs they recorded for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
The featured artists are Chico Trujillo (Chile), Bomba Estéreo (Colombia), Diego Torres (Argentina), Alex Cuba (Cuba), Criolo, Siba, Gaby Amarantos and Marcelo Camelo (Brasil).
(Image: Argentinian singer Diego Torres, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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Broadcasts
- Sat 22 Dec 2012 22:05GMTÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online
- Sun 23 Dec 2012 03:05GMTÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online